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To: Mani1 who wrote (59546)	5/25/1999 3:20:00 AM
From: Jeff R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

How AMD will increase Speed Grades of K7. Although I don't have any direct information from AMD, I would assume that the K7 will run upto 750 to 800 MHz today. I make this observation because AMD has already demonstrated a 1000 MHz freon cooled K7. From past experience this summer the Kryotech K6-2 were about 25 percent faster than the production heatsink/fan versions. Since the K7 was designed from ground up to run at high clock frequencies I would suspect based on the deeper number of pipeline stages of the K7 (.i.e 10 for integer and 15 for floating point) and the fact that the K6-2 has a 5 to 6 stage pipe and the fact that the K6-2 is able to achieve 475-500 MHz speed grades today. Of course the K7 is not in full ramped production like the K6-2 is but I feel K7 can be shipped at 800 MHz in AMD's 0.25 um with aggressive transistor scaling. AMD will not announce such high speed grades at intro time. What AMD will do is introduce one speed grade higher than Intel's highest offering. When Intel announces the P6-III 600 MHz and will counter the next day a K7 650 MHz, always being one speed grade ahead. Once AMD introduces the K7, AMD will not relinquish the speed race for at least the next year. The real concern from an invester is can AMD truly develop an alternative platform that will rival Intel's?